Election education campaign planned for Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Elections Fee is making ready to launch a statewide voter schooling marketing campaign this fall that particularly targets highschool college students in addition to most people.

The trouble comes amid ongoing false claims made by former President Donald Trump and his supporters about how the 2020 election was run and its outcomes.

A memo ready for a Friday assembly of the bipartisan fee says there’s a want for a complete schooling marketing campaign given the “heightened public curiosity in election administration.”

State election administrators from throughout the nation met in Madison this week the place they mentioned the necessity to confront election conspiracy theories and different lies head-on. Leaders from different states mentioned efforts they have been making, comparable to what’s being launched in Wisconsin, to dispel misinformation.

Wisconsin’s effort is slated to start in September and contains one section focusing on highschool college students in social research and civics courses and one other aimed on the normal inhabitants via print and broadcast media.

The nonpartisan marketing campaign will cowl election fundamentals together with the way to register to vote, what a poll seems like, absentee voting, what occurs on the polls on election day and the way to turn into a ballot employee.